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Ben Browder Joining Stargate SG-1 Cast
Ananamous Coward writes "Ben Browder, best known as Farscape's John Crichton, will become a SG-1 regular starting from season 9 (yes, there are already rumors about a 10th season), joining the SG-1 team although is role is quite unclear. He will fill the gap left by Anderson who's unlikely to return except for small appearances.
Claudia Black, Farscape's Aeryn Sun, is also going to play in a fair number of episodes"
First they replace my favorite show of all time with a crappy series that's been on the verge of dying for years...then they take its cast. Viva la Farscape!
About as much as if they brought back the same memorable guy who played Daniel Jackson in the Stargate movie.
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No wait - the other thing - tedious. Seriously.
no it's not just you. though Michael Shanks also did a fair Spader impression in the beginning of the series.
Agreed, Don Davis was a fabulous part of the show, most particularly because he served as a strong counterpoint to the tongue-in-cheek performances of Richard Dean Anderson and the altogether non-military SG-1 team. It kept the show grounded in its setting, and helped bridge the suspension of disbelief factor for me.
Don Davis didn't need to be the ultra-charismatic leading man, there was RDA's manly rogueishness, Christopher Judge channelling a ridiculously buff black version of Brent Spiner's Data, and Michael Shank's geeky-but-sexy factor.
Anyway, I too would like to see Don Davis come back in for a more regular role - send RDA off planet for the season on some special mission and bring back Davis.
Your loss. Best writing on a sci fi show in the past decade IMO. But if you liked Babylon 5 i understand your comments.
You're bitching because some obscure website which is overly fascinated with obscure technologies also happens to throw in the occasional obscure pop culture reference to an obscure science fiction show?
Maybe you'd be happier over at news.com.com.
Oh yeah, like that worked for X-files.
I'm not sure if the show was ever on the verge of dying, but I certainly was after watching ten minutes of it. Browder and Black must feel at least a little bit humiliated. I guess maybe sci-fi misses some of the viewers they lost with Farscape. This really is a big fuck you to all the Farscape fans. And please, no inane comments about how sci-fi was doing its fiduciary duty by canceling Farscape.
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Browder has a wonderful range as an actor and he can even act in front of blue screens, Muppet's and people wearing makeup and foam rubber by the kilogram, but you gotta wonder what he's going to do on SG-1.
I mean on Farscape, he regularly pulls off Cocky, Funny, "burnt," and once, a very powerful death scene... pretty much everything his character is asked to be/do with one exception: he is nothing like convincing as someone who has anything to do with science.
The thought of Browder on SG-1 asks a buttload of questions about what made the producers want him. I mean, SG-1's humor (as delivered by R.D.A. in the current cast) tends to be far more downplayed and suble than what Browder has played on Farscape.
Could be interesting. Could be an accident waiting to happen.
Can't wait
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Seems like a step down after Farscape, but work is work.
doctor from Voyager appears as a government lawyer in SG-1, one kind of expects him to have his emitter fail every minute
Joking aside, this has to be one of the great injustices of current copyright law.
I think that it would be interesting to see to different universes put together where you have plotlines from voyager intersect with SG-1 (as an example).
It would give us a chance to explore characters in new ways. Sure, some of them might be bad, but many would be interesting nonetheless.
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None of Browder's jokes will be funny. Those Earth reference jokes he uses on Aliens just won't cut it in the Stargate universe...
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It'll be nice seeing a couple of familiar faces again, with fresh characters and settings. I don't seen any problem with that.
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Personally, I thought Farscape was a great series that got way too dark and jumbled in the last season or two. It was a show that lost its way. Maybe it was too ambitious? SG-1 is less ambitious, and though it may have stumbled a few times, it never really lost its way.
I'm a big fan of SG-1, all the more since there aren't many real SF shows left on TV. However. .
Am I the only one who thinks SG-1 is getting kind of old? And cheap? I mean. . . In the beginning they had great, elaborate costumes and sets, and lots more bit parts and extras (including great ethnic actors to represent some of the planets they visited) and great military equipment props. As season after season rolls by, the production gets pared down more and more -- it gets more austere and repetitious. Fewer characters, fewer cool props, more austere sets, more of the same stuff getting recycled. And I swear, someday they are going to step out of that stargate onto yet another alien planet covered with the same damned pine trees, and I'm going to lose it.
YEARGH!
Perhaps the reason scifi is doing this is to keep Browder around while they come up with a script for another movie/season of FarScape? We all know it's about the benjamins and perhaps the free publicity and decent reviews the recent mini-series garnered were enough to kick start another run....I mean they did decide to proceed with the new Battlestar Galactica (which I personally didn't find very good) so how much of a stretch is it to believe Farscape is FAR behind ;)
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